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11 May 2011

Why did the BL archive Wendy Cope's emails?

Wired.co.uk spoke to two of the British Library team working on that project -- Modern Literary Manuscripts curator, Rachel Foss, and Jeremy Leighton John, e-Manuscripts curator, to discuss the benefits and difficulties of capturing an author's digital life and what researchers of the future will have to root through [...]

He explains: "Digital preservation is about things like being able to read file systems and physical media. It's a question of how to read particular files in the future. Future-proofing formats is a big challenge."

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Dr Lisa Stead (@LisaRoseStead) is Lecturer in Film at the University of East Anglia, and researches early 20th century women's writing, intermediality and British silent cinema, and histories of women's interwar creative labour.

Dr Carrie Smith (@CarrieRSmith) is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Cardiff. Carrie's research focuses upon Ted Hughes, composition and poetic process.